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Civil society launches demands for a just and flourishing digital Europe at Summit with Zuboff, MEP Benifei, DuckDuckGo, after guerrilla projection stunt in Brussels
On 23 June 2026, 13 civil society organisations – including EDRi – launched “Make It Real: Calls to Action for a Flourishing and Just Digital Europe”, a publication outlining concrete recommendations to EU lawmakers to safeguard fundamental rights, democratic accountability and fair competition in the digital economy. The launch took place at the “Fight for Us, Not for Them” Summit featuring eminent speakers like Professor Shoshana Zuboff, scholar, activist and author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’, Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, and more. The event comes after the European Council meeting on 18-19 June, for which EDRi co-organised a visual protest to raise the alarm against Big tech lobbying.
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Cookies and consent: why ePrivacy matters for our browsing life
The Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal reopens an important debate on ePrivacy and how choices are made when browsing the internet. With this leaflet, we cut through the jargon and explain what cookies, tracking technologies, consent and ePrivacy mean in everyday life, helping you to understand the issues at stake and the opportunities that lie ahead.
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Open Letter: EU lawmakers must safeguard the AI Act
41 organisations and experts are calling on the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council to reject the AI Omnibus, and honour their responsibility in upholding and safeguarding the integrity of the AI Act and its implementation without delay.
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Press Release: Commission’s Digital Omnibus is a major rollback of EU digital protections
Today the European Commission has published two Digital Omnibus proposals, reopening the EU’s core protections against harm in the digital age. This step risks dismantling the rules-based system that was hard-won over decades, endangering the very foundation of human rights and tech policy in the EU.
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Deregulating digital rights: Why the EU’s war on ‘red tape’ should worry us all
The European Commission has made deregulation a top priority for the EU over the next four years. Under the banner of ‘simplifying’ EU rules, we risk seeing the entire digital rulebook – for which we have advocated for years – being stripped away. If the EU wants a healthy, competitive tech market that puts people at its center, then this deregulation push is not only bad for the protection of fundamental rights, but is also an act of self-sabotage which must be reversed.
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